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Consortium

The PlanetLab Consortium is a collection of academic, industrial,
and government institutions cooperating to support and enhance the
PlanetLab overlay network. It is responsible for overseeing the
long-term growth of PlanetLab's hardware infrastructure; designing and
evolving its software architecture; providing day-to-day operational
support; and defining policies that govern appropriate use.

Institutions join the Consortium by signing
a membership agreement and connecting two or more nodes to the
PlanetLab infrastructure. Individuals that want to use PlanetLab
should arrange to do so through their home institution.

The PlanetLab Consortium is managed by Princeton University, the
University of California at Berkeley, and the University of
Washington. Princeton currently hosts the Consortium. Larry Peterson
currently serves as the Consortium's Director. A Governance Document
describes how the Consortium is organized. This page highlights the
main points.

Steering Committee

A Steering Committee sets the overall policy and provides strategic
guidance and review of the Consortium's activities. The Steering
Committee currently includes the following members:

Tom Anderson, University of Washington (chair)

Mic Bowman, Intel

Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University

Serge Fdida, UPMC (OneLab Project)

Scott Shenker, University of California at Berkeley

Rick McGeer, HP Labs

Larry Peterson, Princeton University

Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zürich

Stephen Stuart, Google

Staff

The Consortium employs a support staff that is responsible for
providing operational stability of the PlanetLab infrastructure;
developing, hardening, and deploying software that enables the
research community to contribute to PlanetLab; pushing the PlanetLab
architecture with an eye towards longevity; and promoting continued
growth of the PlanetLab infrastructure and community. The staff
includes:

Andy Bavier

Sapan Bhatia

Marc Fiuczynski

Scott Karlin

Tony Mack

KyoungSoo Park

Stephen Soltesz

Marco Yuen

Policies

The PlanetLab Consortium currently publishes three policy documents.
Institutions that join PlanetLab agree to abide by these policies.

Hosting a Node: This documents outlines
the responsibilities of a site that hosts PlanetLab nodes. All
Consortium members (except at the Sponsor level) are expected to
host PlanetLab nodes.

Acceptable Use Policy: This document
outlines permitted uses of PlanetLab, and the role each site plays
in enforcing these rules.

Mission and
Goals: This document is a statement of the Consortium's mission
and goals. It is an evolving document that communicate's the
Steering Committee's vision for PlanetLab to the membership.

Membership

The Consortium includes five membership levels, as summarized
below. See the Governance Document
for full details.